This is an analysis of the poem Not Buying The Flattery that begins with:
Why do you disbelieve,
Kept dreams can be made to come true? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cX dc X befcg XX fchXh X fdX X aXbcg X bcccbbd X Xef X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,1,5,2,5,1,3,1,5,1,7,1,3,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 11101011 11110010 1111101001 1010 11011101001 1110101001111 100101 11101 1110100011 110101110010 10 1101001 1110010101 1 01001111 111011101 101111010 00101111 1111101 11100100 1010110101 1010101001 1101111111 111 110 01110010011 0110101 1010101 1110 11 1111 01111 010101111 01101111 0100101111 101 111111 11100 11111101 1110010011 1111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, you, it, more are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines true is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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